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Geography of Communications, showing the enormous progress that 
has been made during the Victorian era, and Major A. C. Yates 
describes Loralai, a frontier cantonment in Baluchistan. 
An article that should interest ethnologists is J. F. Hewitt’s “The 
History of the Week as a Guide to Prehistoric Chronology,” in the 
Westminster Review for July. 
The American Journal of Science for July contains a description 
ot Ctenacanthus spines from the Carboniferous Keokuk Limestone of 
Iowa, by Dr C. R. Eastman ; a morphological account of two species 
of Cyperaceae, Fuirena squarrosa and F. scirpoidea, by T. Holm ; con- 
tact metamorphism between slate and diabase in the El Pasco range, 
California, described by H. W. Fairbanks, who also writes on tin- 
deposits at Tenescal; notes on outhers of the Comanche series (Lower 
Cretaceous) in Oklahoma and Kansas, by T. W. Vaughan. 
The July Photogram contains yet another article on the Photo- 
graphy of Birds’ Nests, by Dr R. W. Shufeldt. An article on Tech- 
nical Photography describes the studios of J. Bulbeck & Co. We 
should like to see something on the application of photography to the 
illustration of scientific papers. It is a failure in nine cases out of 
ten, no doubt, but whether it is worse than the ordinary draughtsman 
is a delicate point. 
The Irish Naturalist for July is chiefly devoted to “Some Observa- 
tions by English Naturalists (R. Standen, L. E. Adams, G. W. 
Chaster, and J. R. Hardy) on the fauna of Rathlin Island and 
Ballycastle District.” 
The Naturalist for July contains Mr John Cordeaux’s Presidential 
Address to the Yorkshire Naturalists’ Union. It deals with glaciers, 
plant-distribution, the antiquities of Holderness, and Yorkshire 
ornithology. Following this, G. O. Benoni encourages others by his 
example to take notes on natural history matters. One thing to be 
noticed is “the young oak thrusting up from [the field mouse’s] 
abandoned home and store after a mild winter, as he stalks his rabbits 
down the woodside.” It is indeed. 
NEw SERIALS 
Messrs Ginn & Co., Boston, U.S.A., announce The Zodlogical 
Bulletin, a companion serial to the Journal of Morphology, de- 
signed for shorter contributions in animal morphology and general 
biology, with no illustrations beyond text-figures. It is pro- 
posed to publish six numbers a year of about fifty pages each 
in the same form and style as the Journal of Morphology. The 
Bulletin will contain nothing but scientific communications. The 
editors are C. O. Whitman and W. M. Wheeler, assisted by a number 
of collaborators. The subscription price per volume of six numbers 
is $3.00, and single numbers are sold separately at 75 cents. each.. 
We have already announced the new quarterly Hast Asia, edited 
by Dr H. Faulds of Stoke-on-Trent, and published by Hughes & Harber 
of Longton, Staffordshire, at one shilling a part. The first number, 
published at the beginning of July, proves both entertaining and in- 
structive. The chief articles are “ Judicial Reform in China,” by Dr 
Sun Yat Sen; “The Numeral System for the Blind in China,” by Miss 
